[TheForge] nuke plants and other thoughts OT: POL:

[Jeff Wilson]

Or...You suppose all the radiation let loose when the nukes all get trashed
by earthquakes and tsunamis might give rise to an intelligent life form?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] nuke plants and other thoughts OT: POL:


> Also no kids here.
>
> You suppose all the radiation let loose when the nukes all get trashed
> by earthquakes and tsunamis might accelerate human evolution and give
> rise to an intelligent life form?
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>> Terry;
>> We have no kids and therefore my interest in the future of mankind is 
>> kinda abstract...but.
>>
>> While regular accidents can easily kill us as individuals;
>> Nuke accidents can continue kill folks for the foreseeable future!
>> That's a very different proposition.
>>
>> If you only care about yourself...it doesn't much matter.
>> If the future of mankind matters to you at all;
>> Then you gotta take nukes much more seriously!
>>
>> Nuke plants tend to get sited where people will want to live
>> long after anyone remembers the contamination is there.
>>
>> The reality is that no one will clean those sites up.
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2011, at 7:05 PM, terry l. ridder wrote:
>>
>>> hello;
>>>
>>> there are more than commercial power generation reactors out there is
>>> the wild. the university of illinois has a small reactor used for
>>> experiements and testing. the university of chicago also has a small
>>> reactor. lawerance livermore laboratory has several reactors. argonne
>>> national laboratory has several reactors. then there are the
>>> decommissioned reactors in the bottom of several undergraound complexes
>>> out west.
>>>
>>> illinois, appears to have the most nuclear plants used for power
>>> generation. close to dekalb, illinois is the byron plant and the dresden
>>> plant. the quad cities is further away. dresden is the same type of
>>> reactor as the japanese nuclear plants.
>>>
>>> when the new madrid faults lets loose again, we will see just how well
>>> those plants are constructed. also even though they are in the middle of
>>> the midwest , the last time the new madrid fault let loose it changed
>>> the course of the mississippi river and there is evidence of large waves
>>> occurring on the great lakes, particularly lake michigan. never
>>> underestimate the waves on the great lakes. if the lake bed were to move
>>> in a similar fashion as the ocean floor the waves would be just like a
>>> tsunami.
>>>
>>> zion nuclear power plant is in standdown/decommissioned is rather close
>>> to lake michigan. it current stores many spent fuel cells in a 3 million
>>> gallon swimming pool.
>>>
>>> the moral is that there is danger and risks around us everyday and
>>> everywhere. just driving a car is high risk. be involved in a
>>> head-on-collision and you will see what i mean. your life changes
>>> forever in a split second and there is not anything you can do about it.
>>>
>>> stuff happens are generally it is the bad nasty stuff that happens.
>>> such is life.
>>>
>>> we are born, we suffer and plod through life, then we die. some die
>>> sooner. some die later. we all die eventually.
>>>
>>> --
>>> terry l. ridder ><>
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